July 2012
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WNA NEWS >>
Nine newspaper publishers will be honored in Eagle River
Nine Wisconsin newspaper publishers, each valued for his or her contributions to community and industry, will be honored by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation (WNAF), Friday, Aug. 24, at Trees for Tomorrow in Eagle River, Wisconsin.
Honorees, all deceased within the past year, for 2012 include:
Marian Adams, The Recorder, Belleville
Robert Anderson, The Star News, Medford
Laurence L. Arnold, Juneau County Star Times, Mauston
Marie Flynn Berner, Antigo Daily Journal
Donald A. Halvorson, The Boyceville Press
Paul Lange, The Chetek Alert Robert Richter, The Sheboygan Press
Daniel L. Satran, Vilas County News-Review, Eagle River
Howard (Pork) Vezina, Standard-Press, St. Croix Falls
Read more about each of the nine publishers who will be honored on WNA Foundation’s Memorial Pylon.
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Slimp will discuss 'today's newspaper' in Eagle River
Leading newspaper industry speaker Kevin Slimp will present WNA members with "Today’s Newspaper: The Online/Print Connection" offering his thoughts on where newspapers are, where they are headed and tools needed to wade the waters ahead on Friday, Aug. 24.
Slimp's presentation will headline the WNA Foundation's 2012 Trees Retreat.
Read more >> Kevin Slimp Register for the 2012 Trees Retreat online today!
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Cornell, Cadott papers under new ownership
Central Wisconsin Publications has purchased two northwest Wisconsin newspapers: The Cornell and Lake Holcombe Courier and The Cadott Sentinel.
Central Wisconsin Publications publishes The Star News (Medford), The Tribune- Phonograph (Abbotsford) and The Record-Review (Edgar).
The Cornell and Cadott papers had been owned and operated for more than 32 years by Trygg Hansen, who passed away in 2011. His brothers Mark and David Hansen announced the sale in June of 2012.
“A good indication of the integrity of a person, business or group is how much they give, as opposed to how much they ‘make,’” David and Mark wrote in announcing the sale. “The O’Leary family (mother and daughter Carol and Kris O’Leary, as well as Kris’ husband Kevin Flink) is proof. We could not be more pleased, personally and professionally, to turn things over to them.”
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Newspapers charging for digital access By Paul Gores — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — Most of Wisconsin's biggest newspapers now require paid subscriptions for full access to their digital versions, a change prompted by less-profitable print editions and the way a growing number of readers prefer to get their local news.
The state's Gannett Co. newspapers - among them the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Appleton Post-Crescent, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter and Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - recently began to limit the views of articles unless readers subscribe.
The Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, one of several Lee Enterprises Inc. newspapers in the state, went to a paid digital subscription business model in June, while the Journal Sentinel moved to paid digital subscriptions in January.
The metered or "pay wall" models typically allow readers to view a certain number of stories online free of charge each month - 20 is typical - but require them to sub scribe to view more and to have unlimited access to the newspaper's digital versions. Read more >>
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Papers unaffected ‘for time being’ by postal consolidation
The U.S. Postal Service announced July 1 that the Kenosha and Portage mail processing facilities have been scheduled for closure this summer. The Kenosha mail processing will move to Milwaukee and the Portage processing will move to Madison.
The USPS had originally targeted five sites in Wisconsin for closure — those sites included Eau Claire, Kenosha, La Crosse, Portage and Wausau. Only Kenosha and Portage made the final closure list.
“Luckily, these closures will have little if no immediate impact on WNA members,” said WNA Executive Director Beth Bennett.
Kenosha News Publisher Ken Dowdell told WNA that Kenosha’s facility closure is not a concern as The Kenosha News processes its mail through the nearby Pleasant Prairie’s post office.
Portage Daily Register General Manager Matt Meyers has been told by postal officials in Portage that “for the time being” there will be no changes in how newspapers are handled. A Business Mail Entry Unit will remain in Portage.
Read more from USPS >>
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Wisconsin claims two Golden Quill runners-up Two Wisconsin Newspaper Association members were among the 11 runners-up to the Golden Quill, the top award presented annually by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE).
Runners-up included Peter Weinschenk, editor of Abbotsford’s The Record-Review and David Giffey, editor of Spring Green’s Home News. Weinschenk won the award in 2011.
Vernon Oickle, editor of the Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, won the Golden Quill. Weinschenk won the award in 2011. See a list of past winners here.
The Golden Quill awards were handed out at the ISWNE’s annual conference in Bellingham, Wash., on June 30. Kris O’Leary, publisher of The Record-Review, completed her term as ISWNE’s president at the conference. O’Leary also serves on the WNA Foundation Board of Directors. Red more at www.iswne.org.
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Investigative center honored as innovator
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have won a national award for their collaborative efforts to produce investigative reporting.
The Associated Press Media Editors’ first Innovator of the Year for College Students award cites the Center and school, which since 2009 have collaborated in classrooms and through paid internships.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan Center’s stories have reached an audience estimated at more than 18 million people and have been used by more than 200 news organizations nationwide, while winning nine state journalism awards and training a new generation of investigative journalists.
In other categories of APME’s awards, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation into Milwaukee police officers who have been disciplined for violating laws and ordinances won two awards. See the full list of APME award winners.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Newspaper Association members, as well as Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Economics for Opinion Leaders seminar set for Aug. 6
Wisconsin reporters and editors are invited to attend the seminar “Economics for Opinion Leaders – Journalists” on Monday, Aug. 6, in Milwaukee.
This award-winning seminar is designed to provide important information regarding how our economy works and to show the participants how the “economic way of thinking” might help them in their professional and personal lives.
Respected economists will discuss such topics as why some nations are rich and others are poor, basic economic statistics every member of the media needs to know, the causes of the U.S. financial crisis, the purpose of the Federal Reserve System and much more.
David Oppedahl of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank will make a special presentation, "An Economic Recovery Under Construction: A View from the Chicago Fed." Oppedahl will examine aspects of the economic recovery with an emphasis on Wisconsin and the region.
Registration cost is $25.00 and includes beverages, continental breakfast and lunch. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. with the seminar beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m. at the University Club of Milwaukee, 924 East Wells St.
The workshop will be led by Mark C. Schug, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Scott Niederjohn, Lakeland College, Sheboygan.
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Get your press identification cards from WNA Two types of press credentials are now available to WNA members.
Either type must be requested by publisher, general manager or editor.
1. Press Card – paper style. This is a paper press card. It is valid for the current year. These are available at no charge.
2. Photo ID badge. A 2012-2013 photo ID badge is available for $10 (includes shipping) for WNA members. When ordering, members will need to submit a hi-resolution head shot for each employee receiving a badge plus the applicable processing fees. Turnaround time is typically eight business days. Identification cards and badges are available to staff of WNA Full Business members only. Download an order form.
Contact Bonnie Fechtner, WNA member services director, for more information. [email protected] or (608) 283-7622
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AMONG YOUR FRIENDS >>
New weekly paper starts up in Manawa Rose Publications, publisher of the Clintonville Chronicle, has begun publication of the Manawa Messenger.
The first edition of the Messenger went to press Monday, July 16. The Messenger is a ten-page, weekly newspaper designated to the Manawa/Symco/Ogdensburg region. The newspaper will be developed and produced from the Clintonville office in the near future, but will eventually establish an office in Manawa.
Owner and WNA member Tricia Rose, who was awarded the 2012 State of Wisconsin Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Small Business Administration, founded the Chronicle in August of 2009 with her husband, Greg.
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Amery Free Press hires editor/publisher
Tom Stangl, publisher of the Le Mars (Iowa) Daily Sentinel will become editor and publisher of the Amery Free Press.
His wife, Diane Stangl, has resigned her job as office manager of the Remsen Bell- Enterprise newspapers to become office manager of the Amery weekly.
Amery is in northwest Wisconsin and about an hour's drive from Minneapolis.
Stangl says the move will put him and his wife nearer their daughters, who live near Minneapolis. Stangl has been publisher of the Daily Sentinel since March 2005.
The Amery Free Press was purchased by Press Publications, a group of weekly newspapers owned by the Johnson family (Publisher Emeritus Gene and Publisher Carter) located in the Northeast suburbs of the metropolitan area of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Read more >>
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Changes announced at Borderland Publishing
Borderland Publishing Inc., the parent company of The Florence Mining News/Borderland Journal and The Forest Republican, has announced several organizational changes.
The changes are designed to bring more original and local content to the newspapers while positioning the company to meet a range of economic challenges, according to Publisher Hank Murphy.
Deb Sivertsen, formerly the sales manager in Borderland's Crandon office, is now company general manager.
Teresa Broullire, a sales representative with the Florence Mining News/Borderland Journal since late 2005, will head the sales effort for both the Republican and the Mining News.
Dianne Olive, an original employee of Borderland Publishing, will continue to design ads and help with layout. Melissa Theisen will handle design and layout for both publications. Bobbie Samme joins the Borderland team as a news reporter with responsibilities focused on Florence County, Niagara and Iron Mountain/Kingsford.
Murphy will serve as editor and publisher for both newspapers. He intends to leave day- to-day operations to Sivertsen and focus his time and energy on newspaper content. Murphy attended UW-Stout and UW-Oshkosh and worked at daily newspapers in West Texas as a reporter and editor for 20 years before moving back to Wisconsin in 2004.
The company intends to hire another reporter in the near future to focus on Crandon and the other communities of Forest County.
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De Laruelle promoted to editor
Scott De Laruelle has been promoted to editor at Poynette Press.
De Laruelle had served as assistant editor, working his way up the ranks since he was hired by Hometown News Group in 2008.
He will remain the assistant editor for the DeForest Times-Tribune, but will now be able to focus on Poynette-area news, which was the main impetus for the change.
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Lamoreaux joins Reedsburg staff The Reedsburg Times-Press has hired veteran journalist Kim Lamoreaux as a reporter.
Lamoreaux worked 11 years for News Publishing Co.’s News-Sickle-Arrow in Black Earth (nine as a full-time reporter), and three years before that for the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum in north-central Ohio. Read more >>
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Lescelius will retire Terri Lescelius, editor of the EagleHerald of Marinette and Menominee, is retiring July 27.
She has been affiliated with Bliss Communications Inc. (parent company of the EagleHerald) since 1975 when she started her career as wire editor in Ironwood, Mich. Lescelius was promoted to news editor there and came to the Marinette Eagle-Star in the early 1980s as managing editor.
She was named editor /general manager of the Menominee Herald-Leader in 1987, becoming the first female editor in the Twin Cities. When the two papers merged, she was coeditor and later editor of the
EagleHerald.
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Schuenemann joins staff in Green Lake
Kimberly Schuenemann has joined the staff of Berlin Journals Newspapers as a reporter, primarily covering the city of Green Lake with the Green Lake Reporter.
Schuenemann was born and raised in Markesan and earned her bachelor’s degree in English and middle secondary education with a minor in communications from Marian University in Fond du Lac.
She served as a copy editor at The Oshkosh Northwestern, and is enrolled in online classes in pursuit of a master's degree in communications/journalism at Marquette University.
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Former Racine editor passes away Charles “Chas” Edwards, who worked for The Journal Times (Racine) for 33 years serving as a reporter, regional editor, city editor and editorial writer, died June 24, 2012.
Edwards earned a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in journalism in 1952. In 1953 he took at job at the Burlington Free Press, moving on to The Journal Times in 1954. Following his retirement in 1987, he worked as a freelance writer, penning articles for national magazines. Read more >>
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Portage County Gazette redesigns website The Portage County Gazette (Stevens Point) celebrated its 13th anniversary on July 2 with the launch of a comprehensive redesign and update of its website at www.pcgazette.com.
The site includes news content and a variety of ways for people to interact directly with the newspaper, including everything from renewing a subscription to submitting a classified ad. The site is open to the public and operates with a teaser format, allowing readers to preview excerpts of the week’s featured stories and columns and view a selection of photos from the previous week’s paper. The printed weekly newspaper, delivered to people’s mailboxes on Fridays, will continue to offer the most complete community news and information available. Read more >>
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Markesan paper makes short move The Markesan Regional Reporter recently moved to 33 W. John Street, just a half block from its current location on Bridge Street.
In a piece published in the paper, Publisher Ty Gonyo said "Settling into our new home should be a fairly quick process and with the additional space, we will now be able to better fulfill our customers' needs, whether those needs relate to advertising in the Markesan Regional Reporter or The Billboard, or through our commercial printing endeavors."
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Devroy Fellowship awarded
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire junior Taylor Kuether, Grafton, has been awarded the 15th Ann Devroy Memorial Fellowship, presented annually to a UW-Eau Claire journalism student who shows exceptional promise and ability.
The fellowship includes a three-week residency at The Washington Post, a $2,000 scholarship to offset the costs of the residency and a paid summer internship at a Wisconsin newspaper. Kuether will be at The Post during her winter break in January 2013.
Devroy, a 1970 graduate of UW-Eau Claire, was a White House correspondent for more than 15 years.
INDUSTRY NEWS >>
New media boot camp offered
Freedom Forum New Media Training will offer a Multimedia Boot Camp for Journalism Professionals and Educators Aug. 15-19 and Nov. 14-18, 2012.
The multimedia training is tailored for journalists with limited or no multimedia experience but open to anyone with an interest in multimedia storytelling. The schedule is intense, equivalent to a 3-credit-hour college course, and takes place at the state-of-the-art facilities in the Freedom Forum’s John Seigenthaler Center, 1207 18th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn.
Registration is available immediately and on a first- come, first-served basis. Follow this link for more information and to register online: http://freedomforumdiversity.org/workshops-and- conferences/2012/02/08/multimedia-boot-camps-video-quick-course-and-custom-training-for-2012/ Class size is limited to 18 participants, and once capacity is reached, registrations will be cut off.
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Industry survey results available The Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey provides comprehensive pay data that enables newspapers to compare their compensation levels geographically, by circulation size and with the newspaper industry as a whole.
The survey is designed to cover the most commonly occurring jobs with relatively standard content (benchmark jobs); it is not intended to include jobs for which there are highly localized labor markets (clerical, hourly and unskilled jobs).
Download state and regional reports.
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Get Pulse of America research reports
WNA member newspapers are invited to participate in the Pulse of America reader purchasing survey and, in turn, benefit by free access to the group’s free quarterly research reports. Download the second-quarter research report >>
To participate in the next survey, publish Pulse ads as often as you can, but at least once during the promotion period and put a link on your website. Print and banner ads (http://www.pulseresearch.com/poa/print.html) promote Pulse’s ongoing national purchasing survey to provide current shopping research to clients.
The Pulse of America survey is being conducted in all 50 states and therefore will provide an accurate, representative sample of newspaper reader shopping plans.
In appreciation for newspaper’s support, Pulse sends participating papers a complimentary copy of its quarterly Pulse of America reader shopping results that can be used in effective sales presentations. For more information, call (503) 626-5224.
INDUSTRY COLUMNISTS >>
When it comes to backups, do as I say, not as I do
By Kevin Slimp — You’ve heard me say it time and time again. Julie, in Minnesota, even wrote to me a couple of years ago to thank me for “saving her life” after convincing her to add backup drives to all her machines.
So it is with much chagrin (I’ve been waiting almost 20 years for an opportunity to use “chagrin” in a column) that I admit that this doctor is his own worst patient. Read more >>
Giving your designers credit
By Ed Henninger — “Do you see designs,” the publisher asked, “where credit is given to the designer?
“I'm trying to encourage our designers to step up and use their creativity a bit more. We always have bylines for reporters. Does anyone do something on a special layout like, ‘Designed by Joe Smith?’ I thought it might be great to give some credit and a good chance for the designers to take more ownership.” Read more >>
Writing Matters: Remembering the value of authority
By Jim Stasiowski — A swarm of orange-aproned Home Depot employees surrounded me.
I was trying to do what, for most people, would be a simple home repair. But when it comes to anything that cannot be solved with a hammer and brute force, I am prone to panic attacks at the thought I will screw up and inadvertently start a fire in the ceiling, pulverize the foundation, permanently gum up the plumbing or, in the worst case, touch off nuclear war. Read more >>
Along came a spider and...
By John Foust — Some years ago, I met with a foreign car dealer to learn about his advertising. In the showroom, there was a beautiful red sports car – a new model that had just arrived that week. When I commented on the car, the dealer said, “Yeah, and we didn’t even find a Black Widow spider in this one.” Say what? Read more >>
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Education through Online Media Campus
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association partners with the Iowa Newspaper Foundation (INF) and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association to provide comprehensive online training to newspaper professionals through Online Media Campus.
Online Media Campus will offer more than 20 high-quality, low-cost webinars in 2012 that eliminate the need for travel and time away from the office. The interactive webinars run approximately 60 minutes and registration is just $35 per session.
Upcoming webinars include:
July 19:
Ultimate Money-Making Print & Web Ads
Aug. 30: Online Promotions: Tapping into a new revenue source
Visit http://www.onlinemediacampus.com/webinars/ for registration links and more details.
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